Lead Sourcing Specialist

Overview

Job Description Summary Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition. Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies. Achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. An extensive understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

• Accountable for developing, leading and implementing commodity strategies to deliver on safety, quality, delivery and landed/lifecycle cost for the assigned commodities.
• Negotiate supplier Contracts and Pricing, and transmit to Procurement teams.
• Build and strengthen supplier relationships
• Provide Supplier insights, benchmarking and market analysis activities.
• Provide support to stakeholders regarding Quality, Cost and Delivery of commodity.
• Manage sourcing strategy in line with GE existing global sourcing processes.
• Ensure delivered products meet quality & on time delivery standards including being a point of escalation for supplier issues.
• Support, maintain, and update key sourcing tools, processes, and systems.
• Generate cost reduction and cash management actions.
• Secure Supply Chain through Sourcing actions.
• Benchmark & challenge current supplier portfolio.
• Manage KPIs reporting and consolidation within the whole local sourcing group.
• Advanced collaboration with GE Key Commodity Leaders.
• Work closely with Tendering activities to ensure accuracy.
• Facilitate action plan when Quality or Logistics issues with suppliers.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college with Sourcing / Supply chain education preferred; or equivalent experience.
• Experienced commodity manager, advanced experience and demonstrated years in Sourcing & Commodity management.
• English fluency in writing and speaking.
• Readiness to travel up to 20% of working time.
• Desirable:
  Bachelor’s degree in Sourcing / Supply Chain Management preferred.
• Previous Sourcing experience essential.
• Knowledge of purchasing practices, principles, and procedures.
• Ability to analyse and present statistical data.
• Knowledge of MS Office applications, including some knowledge of intermediate level Excel functionality.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Must be able to balance multiple tasks in a challenging, fast paced work environment.
• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Demonstrated team player with a strong initiative to win.
• Highly motivated self-starter.
• Demonstrated professional oral / written communication and negation skills.
• Significant project management skills.
• Working knowledge of SAP ERP system.
• Negotiation skills.
• Experience with RFQ implementation and execution.
• Ability to travel worldwide.

At GE Grid Solutions we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space our goal is to accelerate the transition for a more energy efficient grid to full fill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotable role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon neutral.

In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition for a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.

A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements. Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.

Relocation Assistance Provided:
No

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity.

“Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.